On 05/02/2011 05:38:03 PM, Davide Carnovale wrote: > Hi all! > i was going through a world update today and during --depclean emerge > throw > an error complaining about possible corrupted binaries or hw failure. > since then it has stopped working, no matter what i try to emerge, > the > command simply return to the shell without any kind of error or any > other > output at all. > i fired and usb stick with the gentoo 11 live dvd and i copied over > both > bash and emerge binaries to my machine, in case they were corrupted > (bash > was given as the most likely) but nothing changed. > now i simply have no clue on what's wrong and how can i fix it, apart > from a > full reinstall, which i'd like to avoid. > > can anyone point me somewhere to solve this problem? >
emerge needs Python. Have you tried to invoke Python, just by python import portage quit() Helmut.
